Entertainment Law

Whether you are a Grammy® award winning recording artist/producer or hope to be one someday, or an established entertainment company or a start-up independent record label, we are equipped to represent you.

We work in partnership with our clients to offer honest, balanced and practical advice, and provide meaningful, sophisticated and hands-on assistance for our entertainment clients' business projects. We can assist you in achieving your business dreams from start-up to cornering the global marketplace. Our entertainment attorneys understand both the law and the business of entertainment thereby enabling our firm to build a reputation as an industry leader by providing top-quality service to leading multinational entertainment and media companies, the independent producers and artists who drive the creative process, and the investors who help turn concepts into reality.

We know entertainment law because we have a personal familiarity with how the industry, its artists, executives and investors operate. When dealing with talented artists, we understand that their true passion is for creating art and not tending to business details. We often need to balance a client’s immediate desire to share his or her art with the world with the long-term benefits that such talent creates. Our lawyers take the time to understand the career goals and objectives of our talented clients and use our negotiating and legal skills to ensure that their efforts are properly compensated and protected.

Our litigation group, in conjunction with our entertainment practice group, has a proven track record representing clients in important and high-profile entertainment and media cases. Our experience in entertainment and media cases crosses a wide range of matters in film, music, publishing and television, as well as artist management and agency issues.

Richa Law Group, P.C. has the capacity to represent you with regard to all of your entertainment matters including, but not limited to, the following:

Acquisition and Transfer of technologies and intangible assets
Actor Services Agreements
Advertising and Marketing
Agency and Distributorships
Agreements for Production and Multi-media Distribution Agents
ASCAP Registration
Band Agreements
Booking Agency Agreements
Booking Engagement Agreements
Breach of Contract
Breach of Fiduciary Duty
Business Entity Formation
Business Plan Review
Co-Author Agreements
Commercial Lease Review & Negotiation
Company Agreements
Composer Agreements
Contracts
Copyright and Trademark Infringement
Copyright Registration
Defamation
Development & Co-Development Agreements
Digital & New Media Agreements

• Digital Downloads

• Mobile Licensing Agreements (Ring-tones, Ring-back tones, etc.)

• Interactive Media Licenses

Director Agreements
Disputes with Entertainment Guilds
Distribution Agreements
Employee Agreements
Employment Disputes
Endorsement Agreements
Engagement Agreements
Estate Planning
Event Production Agreements
Finder’s Fee Agreements
First Amendment issues
General strategic advice and counsel regarding your business objectives
Independent Contractor Agreements
Infringement
Intellectual Property protection
Licenses for Use
Life Story Option Agreements
Litigation
Management Agreements
Mechanical Licenses
Media Agreements and Releases
Modeling Agreements
Music Publishing Agreements
Music Sample Licenses
Non-Disclosure/Confidentiality Agreements
Performing Rights Society Registrations
Personal Manager Agreements
Personal staff/employment concerns
Privacy Rights
Production Agreements
Profit Participation Claims
Promotion Agreements
Publicity Rights
Publishing Agreements
Record Release Agreements
Recording Artist Agreements
Recording Contracts
Rights of Publicity
Royalty Agreements
Sale, Merger and Acquisition Agreements
Screenplay Co-Owner Agreements
Screenplay Option Agreement
Session Player Agreements
Side Artist Agreements
Solicitation of key personnel by competing companies
Songwriter Agreements
Sponsorship Agreements
Synchronization Licenses
Talent Agreements
Television and Internet Rights Agreements
Tour Agreements
Trademark Licenses
Trademark Registrations
Trusts and Estate planning
Unfair Competition Claims
Venue Agreements
Violation of Privacy Rights
Wealth Management
Work-Made-For-Hire Agreements
Writer Employment Agreements
Writing Services Agreements